Announcements
New Work Published/Forthcoming:
Nights Like This in CIRCLE OF SEASONS, summer issue 2022. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons.
How She Calls It a Window, Like a White Cat in the Moonlight, Like That, Love and All Its Incapacities, Meeting Jerry, One Word Muse, Owls at Night, What Sets It Apart, When It Happened the Last Time, and With Strings in the Background Still Shivering forthcoming in POEMS OUT OF THE BOX, a publication from Mid-Valley Poetry Society, available August 28, 2022. Visit https://www.facebook.com/midvalleypoetrysociety;
@midvalleypoetrysociety
A Way of Seeing in ABANDON JOURNAL, issue #3 (Abandon Time), summer 2022. Visit https://www.abandonjournal.com.
Certain Light in VERSEWEAVERS, issue #26, summer 2022. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
On My Mother's Wings in SYNCOPATION LITERARY JOURNAL, Volume 1 Issue 2, summer/fall 2022. Visit https://syncopationliteraryjournal.wordpress.com.
Song of Late Springtime in CIRCLE OF SEASONS, spring issue 2022. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons.
Relic and A Little Tepid Pool in AJI MAGAZINE, issue #16, spring 2022. Visit www.ajimagazine.com.
Wind Like a River in THE CAPE ROCK, issue #50, spring 2022. Visit www.semopress.com.
Still Snowing Here and Doe in the Snow in CIRCLE OF SEASONS, winter issue 2022. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons.
Sculptor and Philips Reservoir, Watching the Cranes Come In in CIRQUE, a Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, issue #23, December 2021. Visit https://www.cirquejournal.com.
Raking Leaves Yesterday in CIRCLE OF SEASONS, fall issue 2021. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons.
It Rains Sometimes in FREE STATE REVIEW, issue #14, summer/fall 2021. Visit https://freestatereview.com.
What Sets It Apart and Articulation in CIRCLE OF SEASONS, spring issue 2021. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons.
Heart, One Word Muse, and How She Calls It a Window in HOLE IN THE HEAD REVIEW, Volume 2, May 2021. Visit https://www.holeintheheadreview.com.
Raven, Still Life with Peonies, and Where the Ground is Uneven I Stumble in AJI MAGAZINE, issue #14, spring 2021. Visit www.ajimagazine.com.
My Father Had a Blue Jay in MOLECULE TINY LIT MAG, issue #4, spring 2021. Visit https://moleculetinylitmag.art.blog.
Philips Reservoir, Watching the Cranes Come In in KOSMOS QUARTERLY Spring Gallery of Poets, April Newsletter 2021. Visit https://www.kosmosjournal.org.
Tree Frogs at 8:30 pm on a Wednesday Night in Rain, Poem as Simple Survival Gear, and Nearing the Vastness of Things in the OPA PANDEMIC 2020 ANTHOLOGY, winter 2021. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Here's Hoping This Finds You Well and Doing the Things You Love Most in AURORAS & BLOSSOMS JOURNAL (UK), issue #6, January 2021. Visit https://abpositiveart.com.
Just Love as the Backyard Chickens in AURORAS & BLOSSOMS 2020 EDITION POARTMO ANTHOLOGY (UK), fall 2020. Visit https://abpositiveart.com.
#Stephon Clark in WE ARE ANTIFA, Expressions Against Fascism, Racism and Police Violence in the United States and Beyond, from INTO THE VOID (CANADA), summer 2020. Visit https://intothevoidmagazine.com.
With Strings in the Background Still Shivering in THE ICE COLONY, season 2 podcast, October 26, 2020. Visit https://icecolonypodcast.wixsite.com/website.
Entertaining the Ghost in GHOST STORIES, A Collection of Fictitious and True Stories, from SEZ Publishing, fall 2020. Visit https://sezpublishing.com.
Lives of the Seraphim in AMETHYST REVIEW (UK), summer 2020. Visit https://www.amethystmagazine.org.
Parissawampitts in THE STILLWATER REVIEW, Volume #10, 2020. Visit https://www.sussex.edu/community/betty-june-silconas-poetry-center.
Here a Small Rain in VERSEWEAVERS, issue #24, 2019. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Wail in VOICECATCHER online, 2019. Visit http://voicecatcher.org.
Cornflowers, Iris in WILLAWAW JOURNAL issue #8, winter 2019. Visit https://willawawjournal.com.
What We Make of It, Art of Dissent, I Can See Rows of Angels Just Waiting, Noose, and Tender Competition Border Crossing in TERRA INCOGNITA, an anthology from Bob Hill Publishing, summer 2019. Visit https://www.bobhillpublishing.com.
More Than Halfway There Now in COMMON GROUND REVIEW, spring/summer issue, 2018. Visit https://cgreview.org.
A Brighter Light in BARNSTORM JOURNAL, 2018. Visit http://barnstormjournal.org.
At the Human Test Site, Greater Good, Migrants Immigrants Welcome, and Water as Much as Anything in MOMENTS BEFORE MIDNIGHT, an anthology from Bob Hill Publishing, winter 2018. Visit https://www.bobhillpublishing.com.
Effigy of a Man in VERSEWEAVERS, issue #23, 2018. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Nearing the Vastness of Things in PEREGRINE Volume XXXI from Amherst Writers & Artists Press, 2017. Visit www.amherstwriters.com.
When It Happened the Last Time in THIRD WEDNESDAY Vol. X, No. 3, summer 2017. Visit www.thirdwednesday.org.
Wind in Things in WILLAWAW JOURNAL, issue #1, summer 2017. Visit https://willawawjournal.com.
Instructions for Balance in RAVEN CHRONICLES, Balancing Acts, Volume #25, 2017. Visit https://www.ravenchronicles.org.
Veil Nebula in WEAVING THE TERRAIN, 100-Word Southwestern Poems, from Dos Gatos Press, 2017. Visit www.dosgatospress.org.
Wind in HAWAI'I PACIFIC REVIEW, May 2017. Visit https://hawaiipacificreview.org.
Finding Center, Grating Carrots, Trekking with Berries in HELEN LITERARY MAGAZINE, fall 2016. Watch video poems Finding Center and Trekking with Berries on YouTube. Visit https://helenlitmag.com.
Removing the Dishes in XANADU, from Long Island Poetry Collective, 2016. Email longislandpoetrycollective@gmail.com
or write to Long Island Poetry Collective, PO Box 773, Huntington, NY 11743.
CONTESTS/AWARDS:
Certain Light awarded 2nd place in Oregon Poetry Association 2021 Spring Contest, Poet's Choice category. John Morrison, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
As It Never Did Play Out awarded 2nd honorable mention in Oregon Poetry Association 2021 Fall Contest, Theme: The Sea category. Christopher Luna, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Here a Small Rain awarded 3rd place in Oregon Poetry Association 2019 Fall Contest, Members Only category. Leah Stenson, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Effigy of a Man awarded 1st place in Oregon Poetry Association 2017 Spring Contest, Oregon/Pacific Northwest category. Charles Goodrich, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Fruit Preserves in Glass Jars awarded 3rd honorable mention in Oregon Poetry Association 2018 Fall Contest, Harvest Theme category. Michael Hanner, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Will It Delight awarded 1st honorable mention in Oregon Poetry Association 2017 Spring Contest, New Poets category. Sheila Black, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
What Sets It Apart awarded 1st honorable mention in Oregon Poetry Association 2016 Fall Contest, Members Only category. Kelly Eastlund, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Nacre, the Unknown awarded 4th honorable mention in NFSPS 2019 contest, Louisiana State Poetry Society Award. Visit https://www.nfsps.com/Strophes.html.
Articulation awarded 6th honorable mention in NFSPS 2019 contest,The Diamond T Award. Visit https://www.nfsps.com/Strophes.html.
New Work Published/Forthcoming:
Nights Like This in CIRCLE OF SEASONS, summer issue 2022. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons.
How She Calls It a Window, Like a White Cat in the Moonlight, Like That, Love and All Its Incapacities, Meeting Jerry, One Word Muse, Owls at Night, What Sets It Apart, When It Happened the Last Time, and With Strings in the Background Still Shivering forthcoming in POEMS OUT OF THE BOX, a publication from Mid-Valley Poetry Society, available August 28, 2022. Visit https://www.facebook.com/midvalleypoetrysociety;
@midvalleypoetrysociety
A Way of Seeing in ABANDON JOURNAL, issue #3 (Abandon Time), summer 2022. Visit https://www.abandonjournal.com.
Certain Light in VERSEWEAVERS, issue #26, summer 2022. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
On My Mother's Wings in SYNCOPATION LITERARY JOURNAL, Volume 1 Issue 2, summer/fall 2022. Visit https://syncopationliteraryjournal.wordpress.com.
Song of Late Springtime in CIRCLE OF SEASONS, spring issue 2022. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons.
Relic and A Little Tepid Pool in AJI MAGAZINE, issue #16, spring 2022. Visit www.ajimagazine.com.
Wind Like a River in THE CAPE ROCK, issue #50, spring 2022. Visit www.semopress.com.
Still Snowing Here and Doe in the Snow in CIRCLE OF SEASONS, winter issue 2022. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons.
Sculptor and Philips Reservoir, Watching the Cranes Come In in CIRQUE, a Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, issue #23, December 2021. Visit https://www.cirquejournal.com.
Raking Leaves Yesterday in CIRCLE OF SEASONS, fall issue 2021. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons.
It Rains Sometimes in FREE STATE REVIEW, issue #14, summer/fall 2021. Visit https://freestatereview.com.
What Sets It Apart and Articulation in CIRCLE OF SEASONS, spring issue 2021. Visit https://fishtrap.org/circle-of-seasons.
Heart, One Word Muse, and How She Calls It a Window in HOLE IN THE HEAD REVIEW, Volume 2, May 2021. Visit https://www.holeintheheadreview.com.
Raven, Still Life with Peonies, and Where the Ground is Uneven I Stumble in AJI MAGAZINE, issue #14, spring 2021. Visit www.ajimagazine.com.
My Father Had a Blue Jay in MOLECULE TINY LIT MAG, issue #4, spring 2021. Visit https://moleculetinylitmag.art.blog.
Philips Reservoir, Watching the Cranes Come In in KOSMOS QUARTERLY Spring Gallery of Poets, April Newsletter 2021. Visit https://www.kosmosjournal.org.
Tree Frogs at 8:30 pm on a Wednesday Night in Rain, Poem as Simple Survival Gear, and Nearing the Vastness of Things in the OPA PANDEMIC 2020 ANTHOLOGY, winter 2021. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Here's Hoping This Finds You Well and Doing the Things You Love Most in AURORAS & BLOSSOMS JOURNAL (UK), issue #6, January 2021. Visit https://abpositiveart.com.
Just Love as the Backyard Chickens in AURORAS & BLOSSOMS 2020 EDITION POARTMO ANTHOLOGY (UK), fall 2020. Visit https://abpositiveart.com.
#Stephon Clark in WE ARE ANTIFA, Expressions Against Fascism, Racism and Police Violence in the United States and Beyond, from INTO THE VOID (CANADA), summer 2020. Visit https://intothevoidmagazine.com.
With Strings in the Background Still Shivering in THE ICE COLONY, season 2 podcast, October 26, 2020. Visit https://icecolonypodcast.wixsite.com/website.
Entertaining the Ghost in GHOST STORIES, A Collection of Fictitious and True Stories, from SEZ Publishing, fall 2020. Visit https://sezpublishing.com.
Lives of the Seraphim in AMETHYST REVIEW (UK), summer 2020. Visit https://www.amethystmagazine.org.
Parissawampitts in THE STILLWATER REVIEW, Volume #10, 2020. Visit https://www.sussex.edu/community/betty-june-silconas-poetry-center.
Here a Small Rain in VERSEWEAVERS, issue #24, 2019. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Wail in VOICECATCHER online, 2019. Visit http://voicecatcher.org.
Cornflowers, Iris in WILLAWAW JOURNAL issue #8, winter 2019. Visit https://willawawjournal.com.
What We Make of It, Art of Dissent, I Can See Rows of Angels Just Waiting, Noose, and Tender Competition Border Crossing in TERRA INCOGNITA, an anthology from Bob Hill Publishing, summer 2019. Visit https://www.bobhillpublishing.com.
More Than Halfway There Now in COMMON GROUND REVIEW, spring/summer issue, 2018. Visit https://cgreview.org.
A Brighter Light in BARNSTORM JOURNAL, 2018. Visit http://barnstormjournal.org.
At the Human Test Site, Greater Good, Migrants Immigrants Welcome, and Water as Much as Anything in MOMENTS BEFORE MIDNIGHT, an anthology from Bob Hill Publishing, winter 2018. Visit https://www.bobhillpublishing.com.
Effigy of a Man in VERSEWEAVERS, issue #23, 2018. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Nearing the Vastness of Things in PEREGRINE Volume XXXI from Amherst Writers & Artists Press, 2017. Visit www.amherstwriters.com.
When It Happened the Last Time in THIRD WEDNESDAY Vol. X, No. 3, summer 2017. Visit www.thirdwednesday.org.
Wind in Things in WILLAWAW JOURNAL, issue #1, summer 2017. Visit https://willawawjournal.com.
Instructions for Balance in RAVEN CHRONICLES, Balancing Acts, Volume #25, 2017. Visit https://www.ravenchronicles.org.
Veil Nebula in WEAVING THE TERRAIN, 100-Word Southwestern Poems, from Dos Gatos Press, 2017. Visit www.dosgatospress.org.
Wind in HAWAI'I PACIFIC REVIEW, May 2017. Visit https://hawaiipacificreview.org.
Finding Center, Grating Carrots, Trekking with Berries in HELEN LITERARY MAGAZINE, fall 2016. Watch video poems Finding Center and Trekking with Berries on YouTube. Visit https://helenlitmag.com.
Removing the Dishes in XANADU, from Long Island Poetry Collective, 2016. Email longislandpoetrycollective@gmail.com
or write to Long Island Poetry Collective, PO Box 773, Huntington, NY 11743.
CONTESTS/AWARDS:
Certain Light awarded 2nd place in Oregon Poetry Association 2021 Spring Contest, Poet's Choice category. John Morrison, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
As It Never Did Play Out awarded 2nd honorable mention in Oregon Poetry Association 2021 Fall Contest, Theme: The Sea category. Christopher Luna, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Here a Small Rain awarded 3rd place in Oregon Poetry Association 2019 Fall Contest, Members Only category. Leah Stenson, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Effigy of a Man awarded 1st place in Oregon Poetry Association 2017 Spring Contest, Oregon/Pacific Northwest category. Charles Goodrich, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Fruit Preserves in Glass Jars awarded 3rd honorable mention in Oregon Poetry Association 2018 Fall Contest, Harvest Theme category. Michael Hanner, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Will It Delight awarded 1st honorable mention in Oregon Poetry Association 2017 Spring Contest, New Poets category. Sheila Black, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
What Sets It Apart awarded 1st honorable mention in Oregon Poetry Association 2016 Fall Contest, Members Only category. Kelly Eastlund, judge. Visit https://oregonpoets.org.
Nacre, the Unknown awarded 4th honorable mention in NFSPS 2019 contest, Louisiana State Poetry Society Award. Visit https://www.nfsps.com/Strophes.html.
Articulation awarded 6th honorable mention in NFSPS 2019 contest,The Diamond T Award. Visit https://www.nfsps.com/Strophes.html.
"It is the artist's job to make form. Not even to make it, but to allow it. Allow form. And all artists have a different relationship to it, and a different philosophy of it . . . I think that when you are trying to open up a territory--in this case I was working with a desire to open the lyric--you have to be greedy, in that you want more than you can do. And you're always bound to fail."--Brenda Hillman (1951- )